Envy-freeness and Relaxed Stability for Lower-Quotas : A Parameterized Perspective

We consider the problem of assigning agents to resources under the two-sided preference list model where resources specify an upper-quota and a lower-quota, that is, respectively the maximum and minimum number of agents that can be assigned to it. Different notions of optimality including envy-freeness and relaxed stability are investigated for this setting and the goal is to compute a largest optimal matching. Krishnaa et al. [SAGT 2020] show that in this setting, the problem of computing a maximum size envy-free matching (MAXEFM) or a maximum size relaxed stable matching (MAXRSM) is not approximable within a certain constant factor unless P = NP. This work is the first investigation of parameterized complexity of MAXEFM and MAXRSM. We show that MAXEFM is W [1]-hard and MAXRSM is para-NP-hard when parameterized on several natural parameters derived from the instance. We present kernelization results and FPT algorithms for both problems parameterized on other relevant parameters.

No reviews yet.

No comments yet.